Mark Knopfler – My Claim To Fame (Guitar)

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Well he's a big star now

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But I've been a fan of his for years

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The way he sings and plays guitar

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  Still brings me to tears

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I wouldn't want to be a big deal

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I wouldn't want to be a celebrity

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I spend my life building ships of steel

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  That's all there ever was for me

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Take a hammer to the sea belles

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 And shout my name

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And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

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He spends his life in the studio

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 Jet planes and big black cars

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Plays records on the radio

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In all of the clubs and in all of the bars

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My day you didn't have a choice

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  You had to take a trade

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You had no money and you had no voice

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  That's the life I made

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Take a hammer to the sea belles

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 And shout my name

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And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

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That's my claim to fame boys

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That's my claim to fame

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To sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

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Well a song can live forever and a day

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An old ship goes to the breakers yard

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In a hundred years you're gonna hear him play

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 They won't remember me for working hard

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Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls

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They yard is a grave where the river runs through

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We used to build the ships for the whole wide world

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 Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to

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Take a hammer to the sea belles

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 And shout my name

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And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

C                      Am
Take a hammer to the sea belles

F    G        C
 And shout my name

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And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

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That's my claim to fame boys

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That's my claim to fame

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To sail the seas as free as a breeze

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That's my claim to fame

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La la la la  la la la

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la la la la la la la

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La la la la  la la la

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la la la la la la la